Solutions Architect

ClickHouse; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

A $500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is hiring a Commercial Solutions Architect to own the technical side of the sales cycle for accounts under 250 employees. You will engage data engineers, platform teams, and founders to design solutions, resolve ingestion and schema challenges, and deliver robust reference implementations and architecture guidance.

Ideal candidates have deep data engineering experience, strong SQL and cloud skills, and are comfortable in customer-facing roles.

Qualifications

• Deep technical foundation in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Experience with the modern data stack (Kafka/Kinesis, cloud infra, SQL workflows).
• Some customer-facing experience (pre-sales, solutions engineering, or similar).
• Ability to drive fast evaluations and unblock deals without a playbook.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical evaluation process from first convo to POC and onboarding.
• Engage with data engineers, platform architects, and founders to map use cases and infra needs.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, schema design, and integration during evaluations to unblock deals.
• Deliver reference implementations, POCs, and architecture recommendations for production-grade use.
• Collaborate with Commercial AEs to progress opportunities; you own the technical win.
• Advocate for customer needs with Product and Engineering; be the voice of the tech buyer.
• Contribute to technical playbooks and reusable POC assets to scale success.
• Participate in developer communities and events to build credibility.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL analytics

Cloud infrastructure

ClickHouse experience

Customer-facing

Autonomy

Tools

ClickHouse

DuckDB

Druid

Pinot

BigQuery

Snowflake

Job description

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.

We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

The Role

Our commercial segment — companies with up to 250 employees — is predominantly developer- and engineer-led. These buyers don't respond to canned demos and slide decks. They respond to someone who can sit in their architecture review, understand their ingestion problem, and help them build something that actually works. That's who we're hiring.

As a Commercial Solutions Architect at ClickHouse, you'll own the technical side of the sales cycle for inbound, product-led, and self-serve accounts in this segment. You'll engage with data engineers, platform teams, and technical founders at the moment they're evaluating ClickHouse for a real use case — and your job is to make sure they succeed technically, faster.

Our commercial customers include companies like Circle, Flashbots, Blockworks, Cypress.io, Kit, Whop, Coframe, Shaped, and janitorai — developer-first products that chose ClickHouse because they needed something that could handle billions of events without slowing down their users. You'll be the person who gets them there.

This is a role for engineers who are ready to engage customers. Prior pre-sales experience is not required — but technical depth is non-negotiable.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own the technical evaluation process for accounts in the sub-250 employee segment — from first technical conversation through POC, architecture sign-off, and successful onboarding.
• Engage directly with data engineers, platform architects, and technical founders to understand their use cases, data volumes, query patterns, and infrastructure requirements — and design ClickHouse solutions that map to those needs.
• Troubleshoot schema design questions, ingestion patterns, and integration challenges during the evaluation process. Be the person who unblocks deals technically so they can close on time.
• Build and deliver reference implementations, POCs, and architecture recommendations that give customers confidence in ClickHouse as a production-grade solution.
• Partner closely with Commercial AEs to progress and close opportunities — you own the technical win, they own the commercial close.
• Advocate for customer needs internally with Product and Engineering — you're the voice of the technical buyer inside ClickHouse.
• Contribute to technical playbooks, objection handling guides, and reusable POC assets that help the team scale what's working.
• Participate in developer community events, technical meetups, and online forums where our users naturally gather — and build credibility as a practitioner, not just a vendor.

What You Bring

• Deep technical foundation in data engineering or a closely related discipline — built through experience as a data engineer, software engineer, analytics engineer, or similar hands-on role.
• Comfort with the modern data stack: columnar databases, streaming ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis), cloud infrastructure, and SQL-heavy analytics workflows. Hands-on experience with ClickHouse, DuckDB, Druid, Pinot, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar is a strong plus.
• Some customer-facing experience — whether in pre-sales, technical account management, solutions engineering, or a customer-success capacity. You've navigated technical conversations with real stakes before. If you haven't, you've wanted to.
• An instinct for moving quickly. This segment runs on short cycles. You know how to drive a technical evaluation to a conclusion without letting it drag, and how to remove blockers that stall deals.
• Strong written and verbal communication. You can simplify complex architectural concepts without dumbing them down, and you write clearly enough that your responses actually get read by engineers.
• Curiosity about the business side of technology. You're interested in understanding why companies buy and what success looks like for them — not just what they're building.
• Ownership mentality. You're comfortable operating with autonomy, running evaluations independently, and making judgment calls without a playbook.

The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $200,000 — $250,000 USD.

The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is $230,000 — $280,000 USD.

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.

These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.

An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [e-mail].

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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